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Stars: Lisa Solberg, Tony Burgess, Barry More, Ry Barrett, Elma Begovic, Marcus Ludlow, Justin Darmanin, Jesse Thomas Cook | Written by Tony Burgess, Jesse Thomas Cook, Matt Wiele | Directed by Jesse Thomas Cook, Matt Wiele

The ultimate reality show turns into a deadly nightmare, as a crew of TV personalities, including Sheila Smyth (Lisa Solberg), a professional organizer; Dr. Lance Ebe (Tony Burgess), a psychotherapist with an alarming patient relapse rate of 94%; ghost hunters Caleb and Chloe Black (Ry Barrett and Elma Begovic); and renovators Derek ‘Duke’ Jago (Marcus Ludlow) and The Falcon (Justin Darmanin), attempt to reform a legendary hoarder who owns four condemned and haunted properties. It’s the pilot episode for their comeback series ‘Extremely Haunted Hoarders.’ What could possibly go wrong?

Turns out a lot!

Ok, confession time. When I’m sat in front of my laptop, planning out posts for this very site, I often put...

Psychological Thriller Tear Us Apart starring Elma Begovic (Bite) sets Canadian premiere For Immediate Release: November 4th 2019 Tear Us Apart a psychological thriller from Director Devin Clarke and Producer Francesco Loschiavo, will make its Canadian premiere Saturday November 9th at 10:35Pm at the 2019 Windsor International Film Festival. Tear Us Apart tells the story …

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Psychological Thriller Tear Us Apart starring Elma Begovic (Bite) makes world premiere in the U.S. For Immediate Release: May 13th 2019 Tear Us Apart a psychological thriller from Director Devin Clarke and Producer Francesco Loschiavo, will make its world premiere at the 2019 Southeast New England (Sene) Film, Music and Arts Festival on Friday May …

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Stars: Lisa Solberg, Tony Burgess, Barry More, Ry Barrett, Elma Begovic, Marcus Ludlow, Justin Darmanin, Jesse Thomas Cook | Written by Tony Burgess, Jesse Thomas Cook, Matt Wiele | Directed by Jesse Thomas Cook, Matt Wiele

The ultimate reality show turns into a deadly nightmare, as a crew of TV personalities, including Sheila Smyth (Lisa Solberg), a professional organizer; Dr. Lance Ebe (Tony Burgess), a psychotherapist with an alarming patient relapse rate of 94%; ghost hunters Caleb and Chloe Black (Ry Barrett and Elma Begovic); and renovators Derek ‘Duke’ Jago (Marcus Ludlow) and The Falcon (Justin Darmanin), attempt to reform a legendary hoarder who owns four condemned and haunted properties. It’s the pilot episode for their comeback series ‘Extremely Haunted Hoarders.’ What could possibly go wrong?

Turns out a lot!

Ok, confession time. When I’m sat in front of my laptop, planning out posts for this very site, I often put...

2016 has been an exceptional all-around year for horror and sci-fi films—from the indie realm, we’ve been gifted with an enormous amount of brilliant cinematic stories throughout the past 12 months, and we even saw studios step up their game with an almost unprecedented amount of quality releases.

And along with this wealth of top-notch entertainment, we also saw an incredible number of fantastic female characters over the course of 2016—some heroic, some villainous, but all endlessly engaging in their own right. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to celebrate some of my favorite female performers from this year who gave us complex, interesting, and wholly compelling reasons to keep falling in love with genre cinema all over again (and again).

Kika Magalhaes – The Eyes of My Mother

Nicolas’ Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother is easily one of the best horror films to be...

August’s home entertainment releases are off to a strong start this Tuesday, as horror and sci-fi fans have a lot to look forward to this week. Scream Factory is keeping busy with a trio of releases—Bite, The Binding, and the Collector’s Edition release of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)—and Anchor Bay has a pair of indie genre offerings, Viral and Lazer Team, coming out on August 2nd as well. Ben Wheatley’s stunning adaptation of High-Rise is also coming home on Tuesday, and if you missed it last month, Most Likely to Die makes its way to DVD this week, too.

Other notable releases include DVDs of Panzer, Summer Camp, The Suffering, and the Blu-ray release of The Night Visitor.

Bite (Scream Factory, Blu-ray & DVD)

Your Fear Is Her Appetite.

While on her bachelorette party getaway, bride-to be Casey (Elma Begovic) gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect.

The stress level for a bride-to-be is raised a few dozen notches when she starts transforming into an insect-like creature in Bite. Scream Factory releases the new Chad Archibald film on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow, and we’ve been provided with three Blu-ray copies to give away to Daily Dead readers.

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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of Bite.

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Bite Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on August 7th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.

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Press Release: “When a young woman returns from her tropical bachelorette party getaway, she begins to succumb to an insect bite in the palpably disturbing film Bite.

Starting off this morning’s Horror Highlights, we have details on the Blu-ray / DVD debut of Bite. Up next, we have a brand new trailer for Christopher Lawrence Chapman’s Inoperable and a new clip from Beacon Point, as well as details on W.S. Barton’s novels Mablethorpe and Coal House.

Bite Blu-ray / DVD Release Details and Cover Art: Press Release: “When a young woman returns from her tropical bachelorette party getaway, she begins to succumb to an insect bite in the palpably disturbing film Bite. The skin-crawling chronicle of one woman’s truly terrifying descent into madness makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut August 2nd, 2016 from Scream Factory. Directed by Chad Archibald (The Drownsman), Bite had a sensational premiere at the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where it won an Audience Award, before sinking its teeth into audiences during its theatrical run earlier this year. This visceral...

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Well, crap. Shoulda done my research. If I’d known that Canadian no-budget body horror flick Bite was from the same guy, director Chad Archibald, who was also responsible for the idiotically incoherent sci-fi horror Ejecta, I would have just skipped it. Instead, I found myself subjected to the astonishingly silly notion that bath beads covered in industrial quantities of K-y Jelly are somehow scary. When Casey (Elma Begovic) gets home from her bachelorette trip to Costa Rica, she discovers that a bug bite she acquired there — in, natch, one of those remote secret foreign places in the jungle that...

  This summer will be a scary one for horror-movie fans, with nine horror movies headed for theatrical release from May through August. Get ready to see a movie or three -- here's your horror-movie planning schedule for the months ahead. Bite Release date: May 6 Cast: Elma Begovic, Annette Wozniak, Denise Yuen, Jordan Gray. Tell me more: Three women travel to Costa Rica to celebrate an impending marriage. Unfortunately, the bride-to-be suffers a mysterious bite...

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In today’s Horror Highlights, we have new clips from Bite, Scream Factory’s Blu-ray / DVD release details for The Abandoned, information and a look at Jon Fields’ Creep Cases, details on El Rey Network’s Mother’s Day Marathon, and a Q&A with The Horde producer Beth A. Thuna.

Two New Clips for Archibald’s Bite: Press Release: Visceral body-horror feature opens in select U.S. theaters May 6th, 2016.

When she returns from her tropical bachelorette party getaway, a young woman begins to succumb to an insect bite in the palpably disturbing film Bite. Witness the skin-crawling chronicle of one woman’s truly terrifying descent into madness when the visceral body horror feature, Bite debuts in select U.S. theaters May 6th, 2016. Directed by Chad Archibald (The Drownsman), Bite had a sensational premiere at the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where it won an Audience Award...

As a survivor of Septic Man‘s sewer-sludge yuckiness, I saw Bite‘s disgusting reputation not as a warning, but as an invitation. What’s a little gross-out body horror capable of, really? Sure, Fantasia Festival attendees reported that Chad Archibald’s metamorphosis tale caused viewers to “faint, puke, and need medical attention,” but after watching it myself, I question the constitution of said fainters. Maybe it’s just because I’ve witnessed the worst of the worse (an occupational hazard), or because I’ve been blessed with my father’s iron gullet, but Bite never sent me reaching for a barf bag. While this might disappoint true masochists, Bite doesn’t need perverse gimmicks to win over horror fans – there’s a story worth watching all in itself, even if it won’t make you vomit.

Archibald’s vision (screenplay credit to Jayme Laforest) tells of exotic dangers, when...

A body horror with bite. A new clip from Bite has dropped ahead of the May 6th limited theatrical and VOD release of Chad Archibald’s latest film.

Previous Press Release: Visceral body-horror feature opens in select U.S. theaters May 6th, 2016.

When she returns from her tropical bachelorette party getaway, a young woman begins to succumb to an insect bite in the palpably disturbing film Bite. Witness the skin-crawling chronicle of one woman’s truly terrifying descent into madness when the visceral body horror feature, Bite debuts in select U.S. theaters May 6th, 2016. Directed by Chad Archibald (The Drownsman), Bite had a sensational premiere at the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where it won an Audience Award and has recently played at numerous top international genre film festivals.

While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect.

On May 6th, Scream Factory will unleash their gooey excursion into body horror, Bite, which was directed by Chad Archibald, who recently helmed two other notable indie genre efforts, The Drownsman and Ejecta. His latest film stars Elma Begovic as Casey, a young woman who is terrified of her impending adulthood; she’s about to get married and her fiancé is already chatting up his betrothed about babies and all sorts of grown-up matters. While on her bachelorette getaway in the tropics, Casey is bitten by an unknown organism and after she returns home, she realizes her bite is transforming her into something monstrous and beyond anything she could have ever imagined.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Archibald about what inspired the story of Bite, the challenges of keeping his body horror project feeling unexpected and unique, collaborating with newcomer Begovic on the film, and much more.

Bite is a welcome, refreshing addition to the body horror sub-genre. A visual treat with solid story, this film will keep viewers entertained in more ways than one.

The film opens with young bride-to-be Casey (Elma Begovic), and friends Jill (Annette Wozniak) and Kirsten (Denise Yuen), enjoying all that Costa Rica has to offer. At the encouragement of a handsome local, the girls decide to hike to a secluded water hole with the promise of beautiful waterfalls and crystal clear pools. It’s here that Casey is “bitten” by something in the water, though she and her compatriots don’t pay it much attention at the time. After all, they’re in the jungle and whatnot.

Upon returning home, however, Casey is confronted with the pressure of her upcoming nuptuals by both her fiancé (Jordan Grey) and his disapproving mother (Lawrene Denkers). To make matters worse, her mysterious bug bite...

Shock’s Howard Gorman catches up with director Chad Archibald and leading ladybug, Elma Begovic, to talk Black Fawn Films’ bug-tastic body horror Bite. Audiences have been treated to a torrent of up to snuff body horrors of late with the likes of the beautifully brutal Starry Eyes or the sickeningly self-deprecating Tusk. The latest film…

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It may be a bit rough around the edges, but there’s a lot to enjoy about director Chad Archibald’s Bite. In a day and age when most genre fans feel like they’ve seen just about everything, his take on body horror is boldly refreshing and offers up a few unexpected twists that I genuinely appreciated. Bite also boasts some of the most impressive production design and practical special effects I’ve seen on the indie level in some time, and it is anchored by an effectively unnerving performance by up-and-coming actress Elma Begovic.

Bite follows reluctant bride-to-be Casey (Begovic) to the tropics for a bachelorette weekend with a few of her gal pals (Annette Wozniak, Denise Yuen). What’s supposed to be a relaxing, fun-filled trip ends up becoming a nightmare for Casey in more ways than one. She ends up an intoxicated mess, gets entangled with a predatory stranger,...